Julian Emanuel Becker | geb. 2005 in Hannover
About him:
Julian Emanuel Becker (born in 2005 in Hanover) has been making a name for himself since his success as the youngest prize-winner at the
St Albans International Organ Competition in 2023.
In 2024, he also won first prize at the International Johann
Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig, again as the youngest participant.
In 2025, he won the prize of the German
Music Competition in the organ category, which has been awarded only three times since 2001. He is also a first-prize winner of the International Organ Competition
in Wiesbaden, the International Organ Improvisation Competition in Weimar, the Grotrian-Steinweg
Piano Competition, and others.
He is supported by scholarships from the German Music Foundation and the German National
Academic Foundation.
Julian Emanuel Becker studied as a young student at the Institute for the Early Education of
Musically Gifted Children (IFF) at the HMTM Hannover.
He is currently studying at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig with Martin Schmeding (organ),
Thomas Lennartz (organ improvisation) and Jacques Ammon (piano). In 2025/26, he undertook an
Erasmus exchange at the Conservatoire Supérieur National de la Musique et de Danse in Paris.
Concert performances have taken him to the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Essen Philharmonie,
St Thomas Church in Leipzig, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Beethovenfest in Bonn, amongst others.
As a composer and arranger, he has written commissioned works and transcriptions for renowned
soloists and ensembles, including Igor Levit.
Gespräch mit Julian Becker am 2. April 2025 in La Trinité in Paris.
Franz Liszt - Prelude and Fugue on BACH - Julian Becker | YouTube 2022